top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-19

Things I do to be consistently happy

http://joel.is/post/29704334130/6-things-i-do-to-be-consistently-happy

14 years ago

335 upvotes – 109 comments

Why time appears to speed up with age

http://everything2.com/user/Professor%20Pi/writeups/Why%20time%20appears%20to%20speed%20up%20with%20age

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 100 comments

The Textbook Industry & Greed: My Story

http://lukethomas.com/the-textbook-industry-greed-its-getting-worse/

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 125 comments

Show HN: BigVideo.js

http://dfcb.github.com/BigVideo.js/

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 48 comments

Programming Languages Have Social Mores Not Idioms

http://learncodethehardway.org/blog/AUG_19_2012.html

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 171 comments

Be More Productive. Take Time Off.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/be-more-productive-shorten-the-workweek.html

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 47 comments

Your Words are Wasted

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YourWordsAreWasted.aspx

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 53 comments

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre Entrepreneurs

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/19/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-mediocre-entrepreneurs/

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Waiting Is Torture

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/why-waiting-in-line-is-torture.html?hp

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 46 comments

How to write a Linux device driver

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/drivers_linux

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 21 comments

Dear Apple: Please set iMessage free

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/08/dear-apple-please-set-imessage-free.html

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

http://www.youfm.org/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 81 comments

Why host and write a blog?

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/08/18/Blogodammerung

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 17 comments

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1315

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 16 comments

Experimental Python 3 support in Django

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/aug/19/experimental-python-3-support/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 4 comments

Camera Pi – DSLR Camera with Embedded Computer

http://davidhunt.ie/?p=2641

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 30 comments

Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19310335

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 115 comments

Free 2 day Berkeley "big data" class this week

http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 14 comments

Writing Lock-Free Code: A Corrected Queue

http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=210604448&siteSectionName=parallel

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

NASA Proposal to Revive Nuclear Thermal Space Propulsion Development

http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/08/nasa-proposal-to-revive-nuclear-thermal.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 39 comments
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